Chapter 4 - My Life Now (1/2)

Chapter 4: My Life Now

REYNOLDS LEYWIN’S POV:

My baby boy!I was so happy we had a son. When can babies start training? When did I start training again? Man, I can’t wait to teach my baby boy all about magic. I hope he turns out to be an Augmenter like his old pops. I may know the basics of Conjuring, but I can’t do anything practical with it except use it as a form of mental exercise.

Alice, on the other hand, is one of the most talented people I’ve ever seen. Even as an Emitter, she’s exceptional. Back then, after she agreed to date me, she joined my party and we went on missions together. Her restorative powers were amazing in it of itself, but what shocked me the most was when she used an area of effect spell which healed allies inside. Talk about one of a kind! And I’m her husband!

Hehe… I still don’t get tired of saying that.

Back in the good old days before Alice wanted to settle down, we would go into Beast Glades and hunt for mana beasts. Mana beasts were various unique animals and creatures that were born with the ability to absorb mana into their body and create their own mana core, which we call beast cores.

Beast cores had an unlimited amount of uses, making them very valuable and highly sought after. Of course, the higher the cla.s.ses of beast cores were, the more valuable they are. Mana beasts are cla.s.sified anywhere from E cla.s.s (the domesticated fanged bull used for meat and leather), to your SS cla.s.s monster. I can’t tell you much about those simply because I’ve never seen nor heard of one, but supposedly they do exist.

Rule of thumb, you should a.s.sume that the mana beasts are stronger than humans of the same cla.s.s. This is simply because, even if we take mana out of the picture, a beast’s physical body is much stronger than the average human.

While the Beast Glades were dangerous, as long as you were cautious and don’t get lost, it was pretty easy to keep yourself out of trouble. The stronger beasts tend to be further down in dungeon-like caves underground or farther away. The first few tens of kilometers of the Beast Glades are pretty well mapped and as long as you were at least a C cla.s.s adventurer, you’d be fine.

Once in awhile, there are missions posted up that requires a couple parties of adventurers. Those are usually for trying to clear and map the harder dungeons that aren’t fully explored. If a mana beast has the power to create its own lair and have other mana beasts serving him, then you can bet there are treasures to be gained.

I tell my son Art all about this life, telling him this and much more so I can brainwa… I mean nudge him to at least have some experience as an adventurer when he gets older.

I don’t know what I’ll do if little Art never awakens. Oh G.o.d, it doesn’t matter how long it takes, as long as he can train to become any kind of mage, I’ll be a proud and happy father.

It’s pretty easy to tell what type of mage someone will be when they awaken because, while Augmenters, Conjurers, and deviants form a translucent barrier, the mana behaves differently around them during this time.

Augmenters, when they first awaken, form a sort of pushing force around the barrier, signifying that they have dominant mana channels in their body. Conjurers, on the other hand, form a vacuum of mana around them, which means that their mana veins are much more dominant. Of course the degrees of the pushing force and vacuuming force depends on their talent in either type.

I don’t mean to brag, but when I first awakened, at the early age of twelve by the way, I was sleeping and the pushing force made me float for a good couple of minutes! Enough force to lift a human body?

Sheesh, Alice should be grateful I stopped being an adventurer and settled down, not making full use of my talent… Okay don’t tell your mother this.

Anyways, as soon as he awakens, I’m going to train him. If he ends up becoming a conjurer, I think I can get him a tutor from the main town since Alice and I aren’t adept enough to be teaching him…

…Is what I said but…

BOOM!

Currently, 3/4th of the house is gone…

What happened?

Luckily I was with Alice in the front yard for a bit after dinner but… Art….Little Art is still in the house…

“ARTHUR!!”

Alice’s face drains of all blood as I see her go pale, eyes wide in disbelief and worry. I nudge my wife down while covering her with a temporary shield that will last for a couple minutes.

I rush into the direction of the explosion, shielding my body with a layer of mana over my skin. The debris from what’s left of my house is constantly thrown towards me as I reach deeper into the source of the explosion. After fighting myself through the sc.r.a.ps of what is left of my house and several pieces of rocks, I see it.

My son had the all but noticeable translucent barrier around him. Better yet, the pushing force of his awakened powers is what caused this explosion. He was floating in the center of a crater that cleared 3/4th of our house as well as our entire backyard.

Haha…

My legs gave out and I just landed on my knees while I continued to gape at this sight. My son is almost 3 years old and he awakened. Only 3…

“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry”

“Reynolds! Honey!”

I glanced back at my wife with my mouth still hanging from shock. She managed to slowly make her way towards me, after there was no more debris to be thrown out.

She was making half-steps towards me, covering her face with her arms to shield what she could from the strong pushing force still emanating out of Art.

“Reynolds! What happened? What’s going on? Where’s Art?”

I still couldn’t find my voice so I just pointed my finger towards the direction of our son.

While confused, she looked at the direction I was pointing at and all she could manage to whisper was, “Oh my…”

ARTHUR LEYWIN’S POV:

Wow I feel great!

Feeling refreshed at my breakthrough, I closed my eyes to sense my newly formed mana core. My sweet little mana core!

“ART! OH MY BABY! Are you okay?”

I see my mother rushing towards me while my father is on the ground kneeling.